But he did paint the top of the base to look like a basketball floor.
It was far from being a regular basketball floor.
Getting out on the basketball floor, it's an escape.
The 2008-09 season saw a new design for the basketball floor.
People 7 feet 4 inches tall are not supposed to be that imaginative on a basketball floor, the thinking went.
"We are not just about the basketball floor," he said.
But at that moment, they were not on a basketball floor.
The next time they see each other on a basketball floor, their meeting will be another stop along the road.
The Storm made just as emphatic a statement on the basketball floor.
The number, 526, counts the victories he amassed on the basketball floor.
